Manager, SAP ABAP Engineer

Job Description

Manager SAP ABAP Engineer

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

As a SAP ABAP Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, customization, and ongoing maintenance of SAP systems within an organization. This role combines both technical and functional expertise to ensure that SAP solutions are effectively integrated and aligned with business processes. SAP ABAP Engineers work closely with both IT teams and business stakeholders to optimize the performance and functionality of SAP applications, ensuring they support business objectives and drive operational efficiency.

What will you do in this role:

• Collaborate with business users and functional teams to gather requirements,  design tailored SAP solutions and provide work estimates. Ensure SAP systems are integrated with other business applications and third-party systems.
• Develop and implement custom applications, enhancements, interfaces, forms and workflows within the SAP environment, often using programming languages like ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming). Build code that is flexible, easy to maintain, easy to understand, performs well, is secure and robust, in accordance with quality standards.
• Perform technical unit testing and support system integration testing, and user acceptance testing with defect resolution to ensure solutions are working as expected. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to SAP systems, applications, and integrations.
• Regularly monitor the performance of SAP systems and optimize configurations to improve system efficiency and speed. Provide post-implementation support, including maintenance, troubleshooting, and applying system patches and upgrades.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (e.g., functional consultants, business analysts, security, infrastructure, middleware and change management) to ensure solutions align with business goals and IT standards. Document system configurations, customizations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge transfer and ensure compliance with best practices.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to  the technical manager and the project manager.
• Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.

What should you have:

• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
•  4+ years of hands-on experience working with SAP technologies like ABAP objects, Fiori/SAPUI5, Workflow, IDocs, Forms, ALV, BRF+, SAP S/4HANA, CDS, OData, Git, BTP, Web IDE / BAS.
• Experience in development at least in two of the SAP Modules (FI, CO, StS, OtC, SCM, MM, QM, PM, SD, MDG, etc.) and integration/implementation with third-party applications. Experience with SAP Gateway, Solution Manager / ALM and SAP upgrade projects
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Relevant SAP certifications (e.g., SAP Certified Technology Associate) are a plus.
• Proven record of delivering high-quality results.
• Product and customer-centric approach.
• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

#HYDIT 2025

Required Skills:

Business, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Program Implementation, SAP ABAP HR, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Test and Evaluation (T&E), Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

12/17/2025

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